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Tereba Togola On the day that this newsletter was scheduled to Report on the 6th International Conference on be printed, we were shocked to learn of the death Mande Studies on 6 November, 2005 of our beloved friend and The Conakry part of the conference got started colleague Tereba Togola, Directeur national du on schedule Monday, 20 June at the Novotel, Patrimoine Culture I in Bamako. MANSA with opening remarks by Kassim Kone, Newsletter 58 will be dedicated to his memory. Mohamed Saidou N'Daou, David Conrad, and the Ministre de I'Enseignement Superieru Sekou MANSA Meeting Decazy Camara. The highlight of the opening The twentieth annual meeting of the Mande session was provided by Keynote Speaker, Studies Association will be held in Washington Djibril Tamsir Niane, who spoke eloquently on DC at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, the cultural and historical significance of our Saturday, November 191/t from 7:45 to 8:45 p.m. conference. Following is the day-to-day list of MANSAatASA participants, presentations and events as they There will be one MANSA-sponsored panel at actually occurred in both Conakry and Kankan: African Studies Association meeting: INTANGIBLE HERITAGE IN THE MANDE CONAKRY: MONDAY 20JUNE WORLD, chaired by Jan Jansen MANDE LANGUAGES AND liNGUISTICS Papers: Chair: Valentin Vydrine Dorothea Schulz, Indiana University Presenters: "Culture of/as Redemption? Narratives of Elena Perekhvalskaya, St. Petersburg State Cultural Authenticity on Malian National University Television" "Influence of South Mande languages (Cote Ferdinand de Jong, University of East Anglia d'Ivoire) on the local variety of French" "The Devil on Display: Heritage and the Public Oumou Diaby-Kassamba, CNWS, Leiden Image of the Kankurang Masquerade" University Simon Toulou, University of Geneva "Analyse Linguistique des Termes de Maladies "Kela JeJiya: What Intangible Heritage? Which en DioIa" Means of Transmission?" Valentine Vydrine, Museum of Anthropology & Jan Jansen; Leiden University Ethnography, St, Petersburg "Splitting Sunjata? Mande Intangible Heritage in "New Evidence for the Internal Genetic an Age of New Borders and New Technologies" Classification of the Mande Languages" Discussant . Peter Mark, Wesleyan University

David C. Conrad, President, State University of New York-Oswego Kassim Kone, Vice-President, State University of New York-Cortland : Catherine Bogosian; Secretary-Treasurer, Wayne State University . AdvjsO!:y Board Ralph A. Austen, University of Chicago David Henige, University of Wisconsin Rogier Bedaux, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde Susan Mclntosh, Rice University George Brooks, Indiana University Mohamed Saidou N'Daou, Chicago State University MONDAY AFTERNOON Chair: David C. Conrad 1. Visit to Musee National de Guinee hosted by Presenters: Director Sory Kaba: Niani Archeological Tal Tamari, CNRS Paris, Universite Libre de Exhibit Bruxelles. 2. Centre Americain Reception hosted by "L'enseignement islamique traditionnel de Louise Bedichek. niveau avance au Mali" Kabine Oulare, Universite de Kankan CONAKRY: TUESDAY 21JUNE "Les mots, des plantes, la communaute, et MORNING PANEL #1 les guerisseurs chez les Maninka" TEXTUALIZING MANDE CULWRE: LANGUAGES AND WRITING AFTERNOON PANEL #2 Chair: Ralph Austen TRADITIONAL CEREMONIES AMONG THE Presenters: MANDE AND 11IEIR NEIGHBORS Stephen Belcher, University of Kankan Co-chairs: Nienke Muurling and Simon Toulou "The Textualization of the Kouroukan Presenters: Fougan Charter: Some Observations" Nicholas Hopkins, American University, Cairo Mori Saidou Fofana, University of Kankan "A Circumcision near Kita in 1965". "Les tennes de bienseance en milieu Simon Toulou, University of Geneva maninka" "Le Kamablon 2005: enjeux sociaux et Ingse Skattum, University of Oslo didactiques" "Camara Laye entre l'oral et l'ecrit; de Nienke Muurling, University of Amsterdam IIEpopee de Samori au Regard du rot' "Guardians or Agents of Tradition? A Ralph Austen, University of Chicago Female Perspective on the Kamabolon "The Medium of 'Tradition': Amadou Ceremony" Hampate Ba's Confrontations with Languages, Mohamed Saidou N'Daou, Chicago State Literacy and Colonialism" University "Rites Funeraires Guerze: Imagination, MORNING PANEL #2 Memores et Visualisation" AMADOU HAMPATE BA: NEW AND EXPANDED APPLICATIONS CONAKRY: WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE Co-chairs: Kristina Van Dyke and Kassim MORNING PANEL #1 Kone THE IMPACT OF TOURISM AMONG 11IE Presenters: MANDE AND 11IEIR NEIGHBORS Martin Klein, University of Toronto Chair: Donald Wright "French Colonial Rule as seen in the Presenter: Writing of Amadou Hampate Ba" Donald Wright, State University of New York- Emily Lynn Osborn, University of otre Dame Cortland "History and its Making in the Writing of "Beating Up the Bumsters: Conflict Amadou Hampate Ba" Between Government and Informal Tourist Kristina Van Dyke, The Menil Collection, Workers in The Gambia" Houston "Ahmadou Hampate Ba and African Art MORNING PANEL #2 History" NEW HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO 11IE Kassim Kone, State University of ew York- MANDE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS IN Cortland COASTAL GUINEA "Amadon Hampate Ba: A very Complex Chair: Edda Fields personality: Bamana Fula, Fula Bamana or Presenters: Else?" Victoria Bomba Coifman, University of Minnesota AFTERNOON PANEL #1 "Oral Traditions as Sources for Coastal ASPECTS OF TRADITIONAL MUGION Guinean History" AND HEALING AMONG 11IE MANDE Marie Yvonne Curtis, University of Conakry

2 "Sculptures as Materials for Historical THURSDAY, 23 JUNE Information for Mande and Coastal Peoples" TRAVEL CONAKRY -KANKAN (Not!) Edda L. Fields, Carnegie Mellon University According to arrangements made with the "Loanwords as Historical Sources: Susu- Ministry of Higher Education, the travel plan speaking Strangers, Iron Tools, and the was to leave the hotel c. 7:00 a.m. The bus did Construction of Coastal Rice Knowledge .not arrive, and it was eventually located at the Systems c.1000 to c.1S00 CE" university. Additional time was lost waiting Alpha Ba, College of Charleston for the ordre de mission to be prepared and for "Low Country South Carolina! Georgia- the bus to be fueled. By mid-day it was clear West Africa Connections: The Case of the that traffic jams on the peninsula made it Mano River Tri States" impractical to try to get the bus to the hotel, so participants were asked to take taxis up to the AFTERNOON PANEL HI university. We finally got moving mid- THE HISTORY OF SENEGAMBIA (15m-20m afternoon. The route to Kankan passes through CENTURY): the major towns of Kindia, Mamou, Daboia, POWER, RELIGION AND TRADE and Kouroussa, and the first breakdown Chair: Eduardo Costa Dias occurred before Kindia. Presenters: In good faith, the government and university Eduardo Costa Dias, Manuel Braga, and Jose administration had purchased a new set of tires da Silva Horta, Lisbon University for the bus, but a few hours after getting under "Senegambia: From the Critique of a way it became clear that there were problems Historical-Sociological Icon to the Re- keeping air in them. During the rest of that day evaluation of an Object of "Study" and night, every few hours or less, one of the Jose da Silva Horta, Lisbon University new tires would lose its air, and we would "Muslim-Jewish relations in 17th century endure a wait of several hours on the side of Sengambia; djimmi status, or a local host/client the road. This was a trying time for everyone, paradigm?" especially as people became increasingly Manuel Braga, Lisbon University-ISCTE weary and frustrated. However, several "The Islamo-Wolof System and its mansamusolu distinguished themselves with Distinctive Character in the Senegambian their hardiness and irrepressible good humor in Context" the face of all discomforts, with Emily Osborn Eduardo Costa Dias, Lisbon University functioning as spontaneous chairperson of "Kaabunke Islam: A Simple Peripheral games and laughter coming from the middle of System of the Islamo-Wolof Structures?" the bus. We eventually got to Mamou, where we took AFTERNOON PANEL #2 refuge in a hotel to wait while the bus was TRADE, CONQUEST AND STATE worked on. MANSAdenw were able to get FORMATION ON THE MANDING food & drink there, and several found places to FRONTIER sleep for a few hours, while others "took the Chair: Jeanne Maddox Toungara initiative" and proposed a half-dozen different Presenters: solutions for our transportation problem. Tim Geysbeek, Grand Valley State University "Diplomatic Relations Between Medina FRIDAY, 24 JUNE and Liberia, 1879-1881" TRAVEL CONAKRY-KANKAN Jeanne Maddox Toungara, Howard University Still in Mamou in the very early a.m., the bus "Muslim v. Muslim: Kabasarana and the re-Ioaded and started moving north again but Demise of Mori Ule Cisse" problems continued with the tires. There were several breakdowns lasting c. two hours, one of EVENING EVENT: the most memorable of which was on the MANSA BANQUET, NOVOTEL outskirts of a village where some travelers lounged on the roadside and engaged in good- humored star-gazing. Moving again after

.• \ daybreak, the periodic delays continued. Mande/Senufo Borderlands" Sometime during mid-morning (about the time the first sessions were supposed to be starting AFfERNooN PANEL #2 in Kankan), still south of DaboIa (a little more THE INTEUECTUAL WORLD OF THE than half-way between Conakry and Kankan), MANDE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS several mansamusolu decided "enough was Chair: Nicholas Hopkins enough." One of them took a taxi into DaboIa Presenters: and the eventual upshot of their initiative was Ferial Ghazoul, American University, Cairo that a small fleet of bashes met us out on the "Literary autobiographies in West Africa" road. Most of the refugees departed in the MusaAbdul Hakim, State University of New bashes while a few intrepid MANSAdenw York, College at Buffalo remained with the bus. East of Kouroussa, we "Demystification, Demythologization and encountered the Rector of the Univertsity of Rediscovery of the Timbuktu Knowledge Kankan, Seydouba Camara, who by this time Tradition: The Contribution of Abdel Kader had heard of our problems and had come out in Haidara" his own vehicle to search for us. After seeing Aboubacar Toure, University of Kankan the bashes on their way, he continued in search "L'education traditionelle chez les Sosso of the bus. One of the bashes experienced de la Basse-Guinee" several breakdowns, but they all arrived in Kankan in time for the evening concert at the AFfERNOON PANEL #3 university compound. The heroic few who RESEARCH IN MANDE AND NEIGHBORING remained with the bus arrived in Kankao later SOCEI1ES: Part I that evening. Chair: David Conrad Presenters: EVENING EVENT: Wouter van Beek, African Studies Centre, MAMAYA & KASSE MADE DlABATE Leiden/Utrecht University "Predicting the Past, Foreseeing the KANKAN: SATURDAY 2S JUNE Future: Choices in Dogon Divination" The morning began with an opening session Anne Doquet, EHESS, Paris that included a welcoming speech by the "Tourisme et authenticite culturelle dans la university rector, Seydouba Camara, and a region de Siby" reprise of the keynote speech by Djibril Tamsir Seydou Camara, Institut des Sciences Niane, who had wisely driven his own car to Humaines, Bamako Kankan to continue his participation. "Le Manden et I'occupation coloniale francaise: historie d'une vie, histoire d'une AFfERNooN PANEL #1 frontiere" THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF OCCUPATIONAL SPECIAllZATIO EVENING MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AMONG THE MANDE AND THEIR DUNDUNBA BY TROUPE TAKOURA NEIGHBORS Chair: Barbara Frank KANKAN:SUNDAY26JUNE Presenters: MORNING PANEL #1 Ariane Deluz, College de France CULTURAL HERITAGE PRODUCTION IN "Bolia, grand chanteur guro" THE MANDE WORLD Caroline Robion-Brunner, University of Chair: Mary 10 Arnoldi

I Geneva Presenters: :; "Les forgerons dogon: histoire d'un Maria Luisa CimineIli, University of Venice peuplement (plateau dogon, Mali)" "En marge d'un prochain terrain: Random II Barbara Frank, State University of ew York, Reflections on Culture and Fieldwork as Stony Brook Commodities" "Tracking Histories through Craft Elisabeth den Otter Occupational Specialization in the "Bamanan and Bozo Masquerades:

I Rupture or Continuity?" "Rituals of Widowhood in Mande Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institute Culture." "Cultural Heritage and International Kassim Kone, State University of New York - Festivals: Mali's participation in the 2003 Cortland Washington Folklife festival" "Widowhood and Other Bamana Death Rituals" MORNING PANEL #2 Laura Arntson, UNICEF-Sudan tne POLITICS OF MEMORY AND "Food Insecurity and Famine in the OBliVION IN MANDE CULTURAL Sankaran" CONTEXTS Chair: Sten Hagberg AFTERNOON PANEL #2 Presenters: RESEARCH IN MANDE AND NEIGHBORING Christian K. Hejbjerg, University of SOCETIES: Part III Copenhagen Chair: David Conrad "Dynamics of Conflict Among Mande Presenters: Peoples in the LofaiMacenta Border Area: Catherine Bogosian, Wayne State University Notes from Ongoing Fieldwork" '''We wish to be soldiers': Forced Labor Sten Hagberg, Uppsala University and Protest in Post-World War II French "Treacherous Women, Brave Men: The Soudan" Politics of Memory and Oblivion of the Tiefo Lucy Duran, School of Oriental and African Amoro Development Association in Burkina Studies, University of London Faso" ''Toumani Diabate: Lineage, Rivalry and Place in the Music of a Malian Artist" MORNING PANEL #3 Nienke Muurling, University of Amsterdam REPORTS ON ARCHEOLOGICAL "Mandefication of Montreuil: Mande PROGRESS IN MANDE REGIONS wedding practices between Mali and France" Chair: Susan Keech McIntosh Presenters: UNIVERSITY OF KANKAN POSTER Yamusa Fane, Direction Nationale du SESSIONS: Patrimoine Culturelle, Bamako Organizer: Wenda Bauchspies "Archeological Projects of the Direction Poster Topics: Nationale du Patrimoine Culturelle" University of Kankan Student Research on Mamadou Cisse, Direction Nationale du Sociology and Ethno-Biology in Haute Guinee Patrimoine Culturelle, Bamako 1. Abou Traore, "Etude Sociologique des "Resultats preliminaires des fouilles Pratiques en Faveur de la Petite Enfance: archeologiques sur le site de la mosquee de a partir de l'education" Kankou Moussa a Gao" 2. Foster Siba Koivogui, "Etude Sociologique Noemie Arazi, University College, London des Pratiques en Faveur de la Petite "An Archaeologist's Perspective on the Enfance: a partir de la sante" Dynamics of Identity in the Inland Niger Delta 3. Fode Salifou Soumah, "Enquetes of Mali" ethnobotaniques sur les plantes a fruits comestibles de la flore-spontanee de la AFTERNOON PANEL #1 Prefecture de Kankan" RESEARCH IN MANDE AND NEIGHBORING 4. Abass Keita "Les experiences locales de SOCETIES: Part 11 presentation de la faune dans le manden: Chair: David Conrad cas de la sous-prefecture de Marela" Presenters: 5. Facely Kourouma, "Les experiences locales Mohamed Lamine Keita, University of Kankan de presentation de la flora dans le manden: and Sidafa Camara, University of Kankan cas de la sous-prefecture de Marela" "Localisation geographique contemporaine 6. Diakaria Diakite, "La rete rituelle de la mare des familles mandingues en Guinee" sacree Bollet de Baro" Fatoumata Keita, University of Mali

5 EVENING EVENTS: Mandinka by the late AI-Han Ibrahima BARO TROUPE ARllSllQUE: SO FOll Kasama, with notes and comments on social (commissioned and organized by Djibril background, history of the transmission, Tamsir Niane, and directed by Camio Camara) glossary etc. To be submitted in March. BALAFOLA Wand DANCERS of CHRISTIAN H0JBJERG conducted a research NIAGASSOLA (organized by Namankoumba project in Guinea before and after the June Kouyate) conference. The project, supported by the KASSE MADY DIABATE of KELA (vocalist) Council for Development Research, Danish with LANFlA DIABATE of KELA (vocals, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is titled jenbe) and FANTAMADY KOUYATE of "Dynamics of conflict and reconciliation in NIAGGASSOLA (guitar) (organized by Lucy Liberia and Guinea: A Study of the Rationale Duran) of a West African Rebel Movement." MANSA BANQUET, UN/-HOTEL EMILY OSBORN has a Fulbright-Hays COMPOUND (featuring far more speeches research fellowship and is in Kankan busy with than anybody wanted to hear) her ongoing research on the history of that city, now looking into some N'ko sources. PAPPA SUSSO is to be congratulated upon acquiring his U.S. residence permit. He Up-Date on MANSA Members' Activities continues to be available for kora performances and can be contacted at: LAURA ARNTSON is now working as a [email protected] Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist with the STEPHEN WOOTEN is program director and MEASURE Evaluation team providing one of two principal investigators on the technical support to national-level HIV/AIDS University of Oregon's new African Studies programs funded primarily through USAID Initiative. Wooten is also busy finishing his the Global Fund, and PEPFAR SEKOU BERTE recently returned from a book Headdresses and Hoes: The Art of Livelihood on the Mande Plateau. month's research trip to Bamako and is continuing his graduate work at the University of Oregon. Books, Articles & Dissertations GRAEME COUNSEL is in West Africa from BOOKS August to October this year, partly to attend the 2005 Biennale to be held in Segou, Mali. He is David Henige. 2005. Historical Evidence and Argument. Madison WI: The University of traveling overland from Accra to Wisconsin Press. SegoulBamako via Burkina Faso, then onto Kankan, Futa Djallon and Conakrv, Newsletter editor's note: At the publisher's BARBARA FRANK has been aw·arded a request I read this book prior to publication, and in my view it is one of the most important Senior Fellowship from the Smithsonian works on historical methodology now in print. Insti tution for 2005-06 for a project on the (DCC). Back cover blurb: Dyula potters of the Kadiolo region in Mali. Historians know about the past because She will be based at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. they examine the evidence. But what exactly is "evidence," and how do historians know what CORNELIA GEl SING moved to Dakar in it means? What about when scholars disagree April and took up a new position at the Goree over the interpretation, or even the authenticity, Institute. She and VALENTIN VYDRINE with the collaboration of GERARD DUMESTRE of a piece of evidence? Such questions have become more important then ever with the are working on a text for Brill's series •African emergence of new techniques, new evidence, Sources for African History": Ta:rikh and increasingly passionate debates over Mandinka de Bijini - La memo ire des historical politics. Mandinka et Sooninkee du Kaabu. This David Henige tackles these and other ambitious project will include French translation, Arabic text, and theoriginal issues of historical reliability head-on in his skeptical, unsparing, and acerbically witty

6 style. His watchword is "Systematic doubt," Christian Hejbjerg. 2004. "Universalistic and he practices what he preaches through a Orientations of an Imagistic Mode of variety of insightful assessments of historical Religiosity: The Case of the West African Poro controversies- for example, over the dating of Cult" in H. Whitehouse and J. Laidlaw (eds.), artifacts, or the textual analysis of translated Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative documents. Doubt, Henige contends, forces us Anthropology of Religion. Walnut Creek: to recognize the limits of our knowledge, but is AltaMira Press. also a positive force that stimulates new scholarship to counter it. Christian Hejbjerg. 2005. "Masked Violence: Ritual Action and the Perception of Violence in David C. Conrad 2005. Empires of Medieval an Upper Guinea Ethnic Conflict. N. Kastfelt West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay. New (ed.), Relition and African Civil Wars. London: York: Facts on File. (Middle School series: Hurst & Company. Great Empires of the Past). Frederick Lamp. 2005. "The Royal Horned Willemijn de Jong, Claudia Roth, Fatoumata Hippopotamus of the Keita of Temne: a-Rang- Badini-Kinda, Seema Bhagyanath. 2005. a-Thoma:" Yale University Art Gallery Ageing in Insecurity. Vieillir dans l'insecurite. Bulletin. Case Studies on Social Security and Gender in India and Burkina Faso. Securite sociale et Dierk Lange. 2004. "Not Yet Songhay." genre en Inde et au Burkina Faso. Etudes de Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 99: 145-156. cas. Hamburg: Lit. Four ethnographic case studies conducted in William G. Moseley. 2005. "Global cotton and urban and rural Kerala (India) and Burkina local environmental management: the political Faso, on social security in old age. Texts in ecology of rich and poor small-hold farmers in both English and French. southern Mali." Geographical Journal Yl i (1) guest-edited by Leslie C. Gray and William G. Ingse Skattum. 2005. Uavhengighetens soler, Moseley. Oslo: Cappelen (Pan-serien). Translation into Norwegian of Ahmadou Ingse Skattum. 2005. "Quand on refuse, on dit Kourouma: Les soleils des independances non. Le demier message d'Ahmadou (1968). Kourouma." Romansk Forum (University of OsI0),20. ARTICLES Thomas J. Bassett. 2005. "Card-carrying DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED hunters, rural poverty, and wildlife decline in Steven Thomson, 2005. "Children of the northern Cote d'Ivoire." Geographical Journal Village: Peace and Local Citizenship in a 171 (1) guest-edited by Leslie C. Gray and Multiethnic Gambian Community." William G. Moseley. Department of Anthropology, Boston University . Knut Graw. 2005. "Culture of Hope in West Africa." Review of the International Institute Kristina Van Dyke. 2005. "The Oral-Visual for the Study of Islam in the Modem World Nexus: Rethinking Visuality in Mali" Ph.D. in (ISIM Review) 16: 28-29. Art History (advisor: Suzanne Preston Blier), . May 2005, Department of the History of Art Christian Hejbjerg. 2004. "The Ambiguity of and Architecture, Harvard University. Gender: A Lorna Mask (Angbai) and Cow-Tail Switch," and "Steps of Aggression and Peace: MISCELLANEOUS A Loma/Kpelle.Mask (Kpakologi Sind)" in Directory of Africanists in Australasia and the Frederick Lamp (ed.), See the Music, Hear the Pacific (6th ed.) African Studies Association of Dance: Rethinking Africa at Baltimore Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Museum of Art. Munich: Prestel.

7 Features over 300 entries with contact \ information on Africa specialists and Charity Ellis , community organizations $2.55 postage within 905 Martin Luther Kingjr. Way Australia. To purchase your copy forward a Oakland, CA 94607 money order or cheque (payable to AFSAAP) [email protected] for AUD $12.55 to: Research interests: Making a film documentary Graeme Counsel, AFSAAP Secretary. aboutjeliya; Mande music, language, social 0- UMPA, Graduate Centre, system, changing roles of jeliw. University of Melbourne Parkville. 3010. KnutGraw Victoria, Australia Africa Research Centre Dept. of Sociology & Cultural Anthropology New & Renewed Members Catholic University of Leuven & Address Changes Tiensestraat 102, NEW MEMBERS B-3000 Leuven Amadou Oury Balde Belgium BP 209, sIc Faculte des Sciences Sociales [email protected] Departement - Econornie Research interests: Divinatory ritual/practice Universite de Kankan in Senegal and Gambia. Kankan RepubJique de Guinee Fanfode Konde krisbalde@yahooJr OPOGuinee Interests: histoire en Guinee forestiere et BP336 l'histoire du Fouta Djalon Kankan Republique de Guinee Ibrahima Conde [email protected] Librarie N'Ko BP 1119 Theodore Konkouris Conakry, GUINEA Leoforos 'OBI' 19 nafadji@yahooJr Agios Paulos Professional interests: sociologue, librairie 55438 N'ko; formateur de N'ko agree par l'association Thessaloniki ICRA N'ko de Guinee; joumaiiste reporter au Greece magazine mensuel Somoya sila publie en 'to. [email protected] Affiliation: SOAS, University of London Marnady Diane Research interests: Mande hunters' music; zo- Institut de recherches linguistiques appliques century avant garde music; modem Afican art B.P.3054 Conakry Facely Kourouma Repub/ique de Guinee sIc Mr. Seydou Doumbouya [email protected] Ministere de I'Environnement Interests: N'ko (Vice-director of the IRLA) & B.P.3118 works with Valentin Vydrine on dictionaries. Conakry Repub/ique de Guinee Kristina Due Friservej 22d Ralph Ricardo 2920 Charlottenlund 7195 Weatherford Drive Denmark Powder Springs, GA 30127 [email protected] [email protected] Affiliation: Atlanta Metropolitan College Research interests: Mende mathematics.

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9 Tamba M'bayo Submissions may be made electronically to 3031 South Washington Ave., #D6 Ariane Deluz ([email protected]) or to Lansing, MI 48910 Stephen Belcher ([email protected]). La revue Etudes Mande invi te nos collegues Kay P. Moseley a presenter des contributions portant sur tous 2200 Khartoum Place les aspects du monde maude et des peuples et Dulles, VA 20189-2200 des cultures qui Ie composent Les articles proposes seront evalues anonymement avant Steven Thomson d'etre retenus. La revue accepte et publie des 4732 Regent st. Apt 1078 articles en anglais ou en francais. Madison, WI 53705 Les manuscrits soumis doivent etre saisis ou [email protected] imprimes sur ordinateur en double [email protected] interligne, et devraient s'accompagner si possible de la version electronique du texte sur E-MAIL CHANGES disquette (format IBMlMS-Dos). Les textes David Conrad composes sur Macintosh doivent nous parvenir [email protected] commes fichiers attaches a un email. Les auteurs sont pries de fournir leurs cartes et Tim Geysbeek illustrations sur papier, d'une qualite [email protected] permettant la reproduction. II est de la responsabilite des auteurs d'obtenir toute Elisabeth den Otter permission necessaire pour la reproduction. [email protected] Nos collegues en Afrique d'ayant pas acces a un ordinateur sont pries d'envoyer un MANSA Web Address manuscrit dactylographic, et de conserver un www.txstate.eduJanthropology/mansa deuxieme exemplaire pour leur propre usage. Les articles peuvent etre soumis par voie electronique a Ariane Deluz Submitting Articles to Mantle Studies ([email protected]) ou a Stephen Belcher ([email protected]). Dans Ie cas des articles The journal of the Mande Studies Association, envoyes par email, Ie texte ne doit pas etre Mande Studies, welcomes articles on all envoye dans Ie message mais comme fichier aspects of the Mande world and the peoples attache au mail. and cultures that compose it Submissions will be peer-reviewed before acceptance. The Joining MANSA and Renewing Membership journal will accept and publish manuscripts in English or French. (For additional information Regular and institutional membership $25, on Mande Studies see the web page: sponsoring membership $40, students $5 www.txstate.edulanthropology/mansa (regular and sponsoring membership includes Manuscript submissions should be subscription to the journal Mande Studies). typewritten or computer-printed in double- Make check-out to MANSA and (if you are spacing, and should be accompanied, if joining) send your institutional affiliation and a possible, with an electronic version of the text brief description of your research interests to: on a diskette (IBMlMS-DOS; Mac texts should Dr. Catherine Bogosian be sent bye-mail). Authors must furnish any Department of History maps or illustrations in hard copy suitable for Wayne State University reproduction, and are responsible for obtaining 3094 Faculty/Administration Building any necessary permission. Detroit, MI 48202 Colleagues from Africa without access to Cell: 267-496-8806 Office: 313-577-6148 computers should send a typewritten [email protected] manuscript, keeping a copy for .their own use.